CHINESE SEAMAN FINED £l00
Had Opium Worth £lOOO (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND. June 25. A Customs officer who chased a Chinese seaman around an Auckland wharf last night finally caught him and found £lOOO worth of prepared opium on him. Mr D. S. Morris, prosecuting for the Customs Department, told Mr H. Jenner Wily, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland today. The opium was one of the largest amounts brought into the country so far, Mr Morris said. Before the Court was Woo Kee, a Hong Kong member of the crew of the vessel Van Cloon, who pleaded guilty to a charge of importing into New Zealand 20 packets of prepared opium. Kee was fined £lOO or three months’ gaol in default of immediate payment.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29859, 27 June 1962, Page 8
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